UWA Apoka Rest Camp
Self-catering bandas and guesthouse · At Apoka park headquarters, Narus Valley · UWA, operated under concession by Footprints Safaris
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Budget
Inside the park
Park-run (UWA)
The budget way to sleep inside Kidepo: government-owned bandas at Apoka headquarters, now refurbished and run under concession by Footprints Safaris. It is self-catering with no restaurant and no mains power, so bring everything you need. What it lacks in comfort it makes up in position, in the middle of the Narus Valley game country with rangers and guides on your doorstep.
Why you'd pick it
- The cheapest beds inside the park
- Walk-up location at park headquarters, with guides on hand
- Zebra, hartebeest and reedbuck wander the camp surroundings
What's here
Arranged from the lodge:
- Birding
Read from UWA Apoka Rest Camp's own website in July 2026. Anything not listed we could not confirm, which is not the same as it being absent.
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Kidepo Valley National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside, and almost no booking site shows you that.
Two adults, three nights
- Park entry$40 per adult per 24 hours
- $240
- Vehicle$40 a day. Foreign-registered car; a Ugandan-registered hire car is about $6
- $120
- Before you pay for a bed
- $360
Rates
Unpublished, ask UWA. UWA's tariff accommodation table omits Kidepo entirely, so no official banda rate is published. Book through reservations@wildlife.go.ug or the toll-free line 0800 100 960.
Rates gathered July 2026 from operators' own published rate cards where they exist. Kidepo is unusual: nine of the eleven properties we found publish no prices at all, and several widely-listed lodges could not be verified as operating. Where we show no price, none is published; always confirm directly. Buffalo Base Guesthouse and Campsite in Karenga village was on this list until July 2026. A contact on the ground reports it closed at the start of the year. We could not reach the property to confirm, so we have taken it off rather than send anyone eight kilometres to a locked gate. NAMONI Lodge, Zebra Safari Lodge and Katurum Kidepo Lodge were added on 28 July 2026 after a reader pointed out we had missed them. All three are Ugandan owned. NAMONI's entry comes from the lodge's own 2026-27 brochure. The other two publish nothing themselves, so their entries come from booking platforms, which we say plainly because it is a weaker source than we normally use.